95] to this Convention fully show. This
resolution gives to women themselves the power of discussing and
comparing of minds to settle the question whether they will avail
themselves of the desired right to exercise the power of voting.
And as it differs from all other questions which have originated
here with reference to this right of women to vote, I submit it
is a proper resolution to be referred to a select committee to be
appointed for that purpose.

Mr. Graves' resolution was referred to the Committee on Suffrage.

June 27th Mrs. Stanton and Miss Anthony were granted a hearing[96]
before the Convention, and at the close of their addresses were asked
by different members to reply to various objections that readily
suggested themselves. Among others, Mr. Greeley said: "Ladies, you
will please remember that the bullet and ballot go together. If you
vote, are you ready to fight?" "Certainly," was the prompt reply. "We
are ready to fight, sir, just as you fought in the late war, by
sending our substitutes." The colloquy between the members and the
ladies, prolonged until a late hour, was both spicy and
instructive.[97] On the 10th of July a hearing was granted to Lucy
Stone,[98] which called out deep interest and consideration from the
members of that body. Later still, George Francis Train[99] was most
cordially received by the Convention.

C. C. DWIGHT, June 26th, offered a resolution that "The Standing
Committee on the Right of Suffrage be instructed to provide for
women to vote as to whether they wanted the right to vote after
the adoption of the New Constitution.

Mr. MERRITT, July 11th, moved that "The question of Woman
Suffrage be submitted at the election of 1868 or 1869. Referred
to the Committee of the Whole.

Horace Greeley, Chairman of the Committee, in his report, after
recommending universal "manhood suffrage," said:

Having thus briefly set forth the considerations which seem to us
decisive in favor of the few and moderate changes proposed, we
proceed to indicate our controlling reasons for declining to
recommend other and in some respects more important innovations.
Your committee does not recommend an extension of the elective
franchise to women. However defensible in theory, we are
satisfied that public sentiment does not demand and would not
sustain an innovation so revolutionary